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Life A User's Manual
Fiction
Georges Perec's intricate novel set in a single Parisian apartment building, structured like a vast jigsaw puzzle and built on elaborate mathematical constraints. Donald Knuth calls it perhaps the greatest twentieth-century novel.
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Donald Knuth
“perhaps the greatest 20th century novel”
From the list of books Knuth says he heartily recommends on his Stanford page.